Ideas Quotes by Francis Ford Coppola

8 Ideas quotes by Francis Ford Coppola

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Francis Ford Coppola shares eight cinematic‑flavored ideas on ideas, each hinting at his storytelling mastery behind the camera.

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I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.

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Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea.

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I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing…

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You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have…

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If you're not allowed to experiment anymore for fear of being considered self-indulgent or pretentious or what have you, then everyone's going…

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It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old,…

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Of all the human evils, of which we have thousands of years of record and our own contemporary experiences, the most horrible…

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The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger…

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I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

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Collaboration is like the sex of creativity.

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Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son…

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Death is what makes life an event.

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I have much to learn from my daughter Sofia. Her minimalism exposes my limitations: I'm too instinctive and operatic, I put too much heart…

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It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't…

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Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial…

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I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn’t have a lot of friends. Theater really represented that kind of camaraderie.

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Wine is so much more than a beverage. It's a romance, a story, a drama-all of those things that are basically putting on a…

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When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of…

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Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

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There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children.

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